Ukraine

🇺🇦Kyiv, Ukraine

Kyiv-Style Pike-Perch

Судак по-київськи

Kyiv-Style Pike-Perch is a pike perch baked with potatoes and cheese in creamy mushroom sauce.

🇺🇦Kyiv, Ukraine

Kyivska Perepichka

Київська перепічка

Kyivska Perepichka is a Kyiv street snack of sausage wrapped in yeast dough and deep-fried.

🇺🇦Lviv, Ukraine

Lviv Kapusniak

Львівський капусняк

Lviv kapusniak is a western Ukrainian cabbage soup with mushrooms, lard, meat, smoked products, and sauerkraut.

🇺🇦Lviv, Ukraine

Lviv Syrnyk

Львівський сирник

Lviv Syrnyk is a baked cheesecake from Lviv made with farmer's cheese, denser and less sweet than American version, often chocolate-coated, dense texture with refined taste.

🇺🇦Ukraine

Makivnyk

Маківник

Makivnyk is a poppy seed roll with yeast dough and sweet poppy filling.

🇺🇦Ukraine

Mandryky

Мандрики

Baked curd biscuits from Polissya: farmer's cheese, eggs and flour rolled into golden fingers or knots.

🇷🇺Russia

Medovukha

Медовуха

Medovukha is a honey-based fermented alcoholic beverage, similar to mead but faster fermentation, balanced honey sweetness with alcohol content and floral notes.

🇺🇦Lviv, Ukraine

Medovyk

Медівник

Lviv-style honey cake of thin sponge layers and sour cream, spiced with cinnamon and cloves.

🇵🇱Poland

Miód Pitny

Polish mead: an alcoholic beverage of fermented honey and water, aged for years. A traditional drink since the Middle Ages, sweet and aromatic, served warm or cold, a national heritage.

🇺🇦Ukraine

Molozyvo

Молозиво

Baked beestings, the first milk of a fresh cow, set into a rich custard-like pudding with sugar and eggs.

🇺🇦Ukraine

Nalysnyky

Налисники

Nalysnyky is a thin crepes filled with meat, cheese, mushrooms, sweetened cottage cheese, poppy seeds, or berries.

🇺🇦Ukraine

Nalyvka

Наливка

Nalyvka is a fruit liqueur made by infusing vodka with fruit, honey, and sugar, dozens of varieties based on fruit used, clear fruit flavor with alcohol balance.

🇵🇱Poland

Napoleonka

Ukrainian Napoleon Cake

Polish cream pie: two layers of puff pastry filled with custard cream, dusted with powdered sugar or glazed. A bakery and café staple, creamy and flaky, a national dessert.

🇷🇺Russia

Okroshka

Окрошка

Okroshka is a cold Russian summer soup of raw vegetables, boiled potatoes, eggs, and meat, mixed with kvass or kefir.

🇺🇦Ukraine

Palianytsia

Паляниця

The classic Ukrainian round wheat loaf scored on top so it opens like a mouth while baking; also the famous tongue-twister word.

🇺🇦Ukraine

Pampushky

Пампушки

Pampushky are Ukrainian garlic buns served with borscht; sweet versions may contain fruit.

🇸🇰Slovakia

Paska

Паска

Paska is a Ukrainian Easter bread rich with eggs, butter, and raisins, often baked as a tall cylindrical loaf.

🇺🇦Ukraine

Pechenya

Печеня

Pechenya is a pot roast made with beef, pork, chicken, or rabbit, fried with onions then stewed with root vegetables and spices, tender falling-apart meat with rich flavorful sauce.

🇺🇦Lviv, Ukraine

Piana Vyshnia

П'яна вишня

Piana Vyshnia is a Ukrainian cherry liqueur from Lviv made by infusing cherries in alcohol.

🇷🇺Russia

Pirog

Пиріг

Large closed oven pie of yeasted dough wrapped around savoury fillings such as cabbage, fish, mushroom or meat; the ancestor of every Slavic pie.

🇷🇺Russia

Pirozhki

Пирожки

Pirozhki are small baked or fried Russian yeast buns filled with meat, potato, cabbage, mushrooms, or fruit.

🇷🇴Galicia, Romania

Polenta

Mămăligă

Coarse maize meal cooked in a cast-iron pot and stirred stiff, turned out as a dome and cut with a thread rather than a knife.

🇪🇪Estonia

Porcini

Herkkutatti

Wild porcini mushroom (Boletus edulis), prized in Finnish cuisine for its rich nutty flavor and firm texture.

🇺🇦Poltava, Ukraine

Pundyky

Пундики

Poltava fried dough puffs stuffed with savoury filling, the city's answer to donuts, eaten hot by the paper bagful.

🇷🇺Russia

Rassolnik

Рассольник

Rassolnik is a pickle soup with pickled cucumbers, pearl barley, and pork or beef kidneys, brine-based, tangy pickle flavor with tender barley and balanced saltiness.

🇺🇦Ukraine

Rose Petal Preserves

Трояндове варення

Jam of Damask rose petals cooked in syrup, a Crimean and Tatar delicacy perfumed and ruby-dark.

🇷🇺Russia

Ryazhenka

Ряженка

Ryazhenka is a fermented baked milk product, thick, creamy, sweet, caramel-colored, rich caramel flavor with creamy texture and fermentation.

🇷🇺Russia

Salo

Сало

Salo is cured pork fatback, salted and sometimes smoked, and eaten with bread, garlic, and black pepper.

🇦🇲Armenia

Shashlik

Шашлық

Shashlik is marinated meat grilled on skewers with onion and rendered fat, a shared Eurasian form rather than a single national dish.

🇺🇦Ukraine

Shkvarky

Шкварки

Shkvarky are crisp pork cracklings made by frying salo and served as a topping for varenyky, halushky, potatoes, and bread.

🇺🇦Ukraine

Shpundra

Шпундра

Shpundra is Ukrainian pork belly braised with beet kvass, producing a dark, tangy sauce.

🇺🇦Ukraine

Shulyky

Шулики

Shulyky are Ukrainian baked flatbread pieces topped with honey and poppy seeds for Makoviy.

🇧🇦Bosnia and Herzegovina

Smetana

Сметана

Thick soured cream of Eastern Slavic kitchens, richer than Western sour cream and spooned over nearly everything savoury.

🇷🇺Russia

Solyanka

Солянка

Solyanka is a thick sour soup with meat, fish, or mushrooms, pickled cucumbers, cabbage, and smetana.

🇷🇺Russia

Sour Cream Cake

Сметанник

Sour cream cake is a Russian layer cake with sour-cream frosting, moist layers, and a tangy flavour.

🇺🇦Ukraine

Sunflower Oil

Соняшникова олія

Ukraine is the world's top sunflower grower, and its cold-pressed oil is a point of national pride, drizzled raw on bread and salads.